Matthew Yglesias says that NR doesn’t care about the accuracy of the articles it publishes. His evidence: the Smith affair, and a disputed assertion by David Freddoso about who is to blame for the failure to enact an AMT patch. Whoever is right on the AMT–and I think Freddoso has the better of that argument–his comment can’t simply be declared to be “inaccurate.” As for the Smith case, we’ve apologized for it. So he has zero examples of our indifference to accuracy. Applying his standards, should we say that The Atlantic doesn’t care about the truth of what it publishes? (For that matter, shall we compare Byron York to, say, Yglesias’s colleague Andrew Sullivan with respect to accuracy?)